> As far as I can tell, most people are unhappy if they're not feeling productive.
That's the hypothesis that these basic income trials are hoping to prove. Do people suddenly start working, even if they don't have to?
I think it's also a matter of community. If you suddenly get a basic income and your friends don't, you might get pretty lonely and bored. Whereas if you had lived for a longer time with a larger community of people who don't have to sell their labor, you might find yourself engaged in projects you wouldn't have invented yourself.
